Politics: Sputtering
Much of the posting wiped away yesterday was largely stammering attempts to explain feelings about the State of the Union address. I struggled with everyone’s opinion of the speech, and played with everyone’s new favorite phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” but I wasn’t really happy with any of the results. I was alternating wildly between 1) spit-flying rants about how frightened I am to bring a child into this world with warmongering racists and 2) toxically sarcastic arms-length diatribes about how everyone is either stupid or being drugged by the government. Neither of these were really that impressive (though they may be resurrected later today, trust me).
Then I came across this piece by Boston University Education Professor Thomas Cottle. And he says a lot of good things. Read it.
Much of the posting wiped away yesterday was largely stammering attempts to explain feelings about the State of the Union address. I struggled with everyone’s opinion of the speech, and played with everyone’s new favorite phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” but I wasn’t really happy with any of the results. I was alternating wildly between 1) spit-flying rants about how frightened I am to bring a child into this world with warmongering racists and 2) toxically sarcastic arms-length diatribes about how everyone is either stupid or being drugged by the government. Neither of these were really that impressive (though they may be resurrected later today, trust me).
Then I came across this piece by Boston University Education Professor Thomas Cottle. And he says a lot of good things. Read it.
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